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Vol. 3, No.
5 MAY 2010
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| 406
ELT REQUIREMENT LIKELY IN CANADA
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| Canadian
Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) President Kevin
Psutka said in a Web
posting last week that Canada's Transport Minister
has reversed a recent decision and will now require all
aircraft operating in Canada to be equipped with an ELT
that broadcasts on both 406 MHz and 121.5 MHz
frequencies. COPA had won an agreement with the minister
to not require private aircraft to comply with the 406
requirement but they warned their members at the time
that the rule had not been finalized.
Psutka suggests in his
post that Canadian defense officials lobbied Canada's
Treasury Board, which is one of the final steps for a
Canadian law, to implement the 406 requirement. He says
since the Board overruled the decision, the Transport
Minister has indicated he will not fight the ruling. The
ruling includes all aircraft operating in Canada
including foreign registered aircraft. COPA did win a
few concessions including a transition period of two
years for aircraft operated commercially and three years
for privately owned aircraft.
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| CHIPMUNKS
TO OSHKOSH 2010
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| Want
to be part of the plan to get as many de Havilland DHC-1
Chipmunks as possible to Oshkosh this year?
If you own or fly a
Chipmunk or know someone that does, please pass
your/their contact details to Carol de Solla Atkin who
is leading the project and generating an email list to
communicate and coordinate the effort.
There are 7 confirmed
Chipmunks at the moment, but estimates are this number
will grow significantly.
Carol brought WK559 to
Oshkosh in 2005 and is planning to bring WK588 and WD288
this year from Michigan and Minnesota respectively.
Carol can be reached at catkin0@gmail.com.
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BITS
AND PIECES POLL
| Q. With
the 406 ELT requirement in Canada likely
to be enacted, do you plan to upgrade
your aircraft?
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Please
review
and rate this issue of Bits and Pieces.
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FIRST CANADIAN EAA
SPORTAIR WORKSHOP A SUCCESS
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| Homebuilders
are keenly aware of the requirement for a yearly
maintenance check of their airplanes. That's probably
one of the very good reasons they chose homebuilding -
to reduce costs and gain control of maintaining their
aircraft. Several years ago, the EAA Canadian Council
recognized a need for homebuilders to become equipped to
deal with these issues. The thinking was that since EAA
SportAir Workshops offered the venue for many different
subjects, why not use this same venue for a Canadian
homebuilders "Annual Inspection and
Airworthiness" structured course of studies? Read
more
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| CANADA'S
FIRST HELICOPTER
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| The
Froebe brothers of Homewood, Manitoba - Douglas,
Nicholas, and Theodore - designed and flew a helicopter
sometime in 1938 or 1939. It's even suggested that they
may have taken off vertically ahead of Ukranian-born
designer Igor Sikorsky, who flew his prototype
helicopter on September 14, 1939. The Froebes' first
flights weren't documented very well, and their craft
never made it into production. While it may never be
known if they were first in the world, they did build
and fly Canada's first helicopter. Read
more
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| TAKE
YOUR AIRCRAFT TO COLLEGE
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| Red
River College in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is featuring an
"Aircraft Display" scheduled for June 19 and
20 at Stevenson Campus/Red River College Winnipeg. This
should be an interesting venue for aviation buffs and a
chance to show off your own aircraft. Read
more
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| MOSQUITO
DEBATE
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| In
last month's Bits and Pieces, we ran an article about
the debate swirling around the fate of a Mosquito and a
Hurricane aircraft currently owned by the City of
Calgary. At stake was the question of whether the
Mosquito should be sold to a restorer in the United
Kingdom for restoration to flying condition or whether
it should be kept here and put into a static display
which would render total restoration at a later date
unrealistic. This article prompted a lengthy response
from Paul Gregory, a local individual vitally interested
in the debate. Read
more
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| SPORTAIR
WORKSHOP FLIGHT TEST COURSE |
| Once
you've finished your homebuilt project, what are you
going to do with it? Start it up, blast off, and hope
for the best? Hey, it looks like an airplane, and it's
licensed like an airplane, and it probably cost like an
airplane, but until you test it, you don't know what you
really have. Do you have something that you will be able
to trust or something that's waiting to bite you? Read
more
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| DON'T
MISS CANADIAN PILOT LICENSE DEADLINE |
| Time
is running out for Canadian pilots to apply for a new
license from Transport Canada. The new style of license
incorporates several requirements mandated by the
International Civil Aviation Organization regarding
security and fraud. Pilots who submit their application
before the June 30 deadline will be issued a temporary
certificate while their application is being processed.
Currently there is a backlog and those who wait until
after the deadline to apply miss out on the temporary
certificate option and their license will be invalid
until their new one arrives. An
application can be found here. |
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| FROM THE ARCHIVES
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Trans
Canada Flight ‘78
Sport Aviation, March 1979
I hadn't slept for more than 40 hours, and there I
was having difficulty going to sleep. While this may
sound incongruous, there was a reasonable explanation. I
had just completed a project which had occupied my mind
for more than a year ... I had just landed after a
record making flight, had been greeted by good friends
and a corps of media representatives, so my adrenalin
was still running high. Because my excitement was taking
some time to run down, I exercised my mind by reviewing
the events which led me to a hotel room in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, on the 2nd day of July, 1978. My predicament
goes back one year, to June 1977, when I had the
delightful opportunity of helping Harold Allsop fly off
the time on his brand new Tri-Zenith. Click
here to read the story
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